Alexa Meade – Living Art N
ow this is what you can an artist! These may look like more boring old canvas paintings, but in-fact they’re real people painted with acrylic paint! Washington-DC-based artist Alexa Meade, 23, took the idea from the trompe l’oeil technique, which uses optical illusion to make two dimensional paintings appear 3D. Born in 1986, the young American artist graduated with a bachelors degree in political science. Her background in the world of political communications
has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality. She never attended art school and she has not taken any advanced painting course. However, with that fascination with perception and how the sun casts moving shadows, Meade has come up with the idea for her work. The finalized work is one that is beautifully engaging, temporary and colorfully alive. In her shows, the physical painting exists only for mere hours and is obliterated when the model sheds its metaphorical skin.
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